Hurricane Season

yesterday, a storm system surprised everyone and formed 3 weeks before the official kick-off of Hurricane Season. it was crazy: i looked out the window at work and it was cloudless and sunny, the next minute, lightning and sheets of rain. then it repeated a few more times. the culprit behind all this precipitation? Subtropical Storm Andrea!

i thought that was funny, so i called up Andrea to let her know. her dad beat me to it. he also pointed out that our relationship is golden b/c her new initials will be AU, the symbol for gold on the periodic table. the best i could come up with was "Auburn University", my alma matter. so kudos to Les for being on the ball!

anyway, i thought it would be neat if this year there was a Hurricane Jerry, too. slim odds, i know. but i think i'm gonna go buy some lottery tickets today b/c after 20 seconds of internet research, i discovered the following:

2007 Hurricane Names

Andrea
Barry
Chantal
Dean
Erin
Felix
Gabrielle
Humberto
Ingrid
Jerry
Karen
Lorenzo
Melissa
Noel
Olga
Pablo
Rebekah
Sebastien
Tanya
Van
Wendy

what's up??? that's pretty cool. there have been 3 Hurricane Jerry's before, the last of which i remember was in 1995 after Jerry Garcia died. (there was one in 1989 and one in 2001, also). i can't find any record of a Hurricane Andrea. so it's official: this is our year. or as Andrea said, "We're taking 2007 by storm!". when i suggested maybe it meant we are in for a "stormy relationship", she fired back, "no, it means we will 'weather the storm'". this could've gone on and on. she's good like that.

anyway, how many of you out there can say you married your spouse in the year each of your names was associated with a severe weather phenomenon? just us and our friends Humberto and Chantal. so eat that!!